On December 1, 1927, zoologist Ditlef Rustad pulled ashore on Bouvet Island, 1,750 kilometers off the coast of Antarctica, as part of a Norwegian expedition to claim the remote, wind-whipped island as a whaling outpost. Later that month, casting nets into the frigid waters, Rustad hauled up a very strange-looking fish. It had no scales […]

Brook Baker, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said he doubts the pharmaceutical industry will pull back much on its investments in India based on the decision. The country will still grant 20 year patents on new, innovative drugs and a growing middle class with chronic diseases will provide many business opportunities, he said. “I think […]

If three years is too long, and two years is too short, maybe two-and-a half years is just right. Call it the Goldilocks solution to the legal education crisis. And make no mistake, legal education has reached a crisis point. This should not surprise anyone paying attention to the times in which we live. They […]

When it comes to hiring undergraduate business students, employers look for a few things. Good grades are important, as is campus involvement, preferably with a leadership position or two. But the most valuable section on the résumé is work experience, which, for a college senior, most often comes in the form of an internship or […]

Scientists have mostly focused on the benefits of meditation for the brain and the body, but a recent study by Northeastern University’s David DeSteno, published in Psychological Science, takes a look at what impacts meditation has on interpersonal harmony and compassion. Several religious traditions have suggested that mediation does just that, but there has been no scientific […]

Brook Baker, a law professor at Northeastern University, “said he doubts the pharmaceutical industry will pull back much on its investments in India based on the decision,” Bloomberg News writes. “The country will still grant 20 year patents on new, innovative drugs and a growing middle class with chronic diseases will provide many business opportunities, he […]

Long before he was mayor, Thomas M. Menino was championing public health. In the late 1980s, when AIDS was ravaging Boston, a medical study found that providing clean needles to intravenous drug users could help stem transmission of HIV, the virus that causes the disease. Most politicians did not want to touch the subject, but […]

In the early 1990’s, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, there was a shortage of courage among many political leaders. That was why I was surprised when I heard that a little-known city councilor from Hyde Park was taking a public stance that needle exchange should be considered as a way to slow the […]

In 1973, the sociologist Mark Granovetter published a paper called “The strength of weak ties” in which he put forward the idea that information largely spreads through society between individuals with weak connections rather than strong ties. His evidence came from asking a few hundred people how they found their jobs. It turned out that […]

While the documents show that Mr. Lanza readily had access to weapons, a fact that was already known, by themselves they do not shed light on his motives, said Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University who has written several books on mass murders. But in many school shootings, the killers were […]

Strong ties between individuals can actually hinder the spread of information through a network, a study has shown. A team of data scientists at Northeastern University in Boson led by Marton Karsai examined more than 600 million time-stamped mobile phone calls between six million people over six months in an unnamed European country. “Our results provide […]

Consequence: Leaders With “Feminine” Qualities Are More Valuable “The aim is to behave like a good coach, and channel your charisma to motivate others to be hardworking and creative. The model is not explicitly defined as feminine, but it echoes literature about male-female differences. A program at Columbia Business School, for example, teaches sensitive leadership […]